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On March 9, per LookOnChain data, a newly created wallet (0xab96) has opened a 5x short position on 90,000 xyz:CL tokens — valued at $10.2 million — with a liquidation price of $130.45 over the past two hours.

On March 9th, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that whale address 0x54d…e6029 liquidated 5,064 ETH (accumulated on March 7th) within the past 15 minutes, worth $9.989 million. The entry price was $1,971.99, and the exit price stood at $1,972.69—netting only $3,375 in this single transaction, effectively a break-even trade.

On March 9th, per monitoring by The Data Nerd, the Ethena team deposited 6,500 ETH (approximately $12.58 million) into Binance over the past 10 hours. Separately, cryptocurrency market maker B2C2 transferred 3,050 ETH (around $5.89 million) to Coinbase.

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As of March 9, Bitcoin has rebounded past $67,000, per HTX market data, and is currently trading at $67,175.11.

On March 9, security research firm Ctrl-Alt-Intel revealed that a group of hackers suspected of having ties to North Korea targeted a staking platform, cryptocurrency exchange software providers, and crypto exchanges. The attackers exploited the React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) and compromised AWS access credentials to breach cloud environments. They then enumerated resources including S3, EC2, RDS, EKS, and ECR, and extracted keys and credentials from Secrets Manager, Terraform files, Kubernetes configurations, and Docker containers. Researchers noted the attackers downloaded 5 Docker images and stole source code—including components tied to ChainUp client software. The attack infrastructure involved a South Korean server (64.176.226[.]36) and the domain itemnania[.]com. While the activity aligns with typical North Korea-linked attack patterns, attribution confidence is moderate, and the source of the compromised AWS credentials remains unknown.